re: How should one go about annoying a micromanager

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Keep bugging him for information constantly to the point he goes the other way when he sees you.

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this . When he / she gives you a task, ask 51 checking questions back to him / her.

This is good advice.

Give that moron a taste of his own medicine and maybe he will back
Off. Shine the light on his arse professionally.

He will likely try to avoid you once you do this enough.

Micro-managers tend to not have a life or never had real problems

Some of the best bosses start as micromanagers until they learn to trust you.

If they micromanage because they can't trust you, stop screwing up.

If they keep micromanaging because they're nuts, document everything to prove you don't screw up.

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Time to revive the Annoy-a-Tron thread.

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A true classic.

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How about just meet or exceed his expectations…every time. I’m sure it will be a huge relief to your micro manager and allow him to look away, so to speak. If he trusts your work, you’ve won.

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ahhh you bend the knee I see and lick the boots, good for you little man

I don’t know. I like to understand on how to deal with a passive aggressive individual- crazy shite I’ve ever had to deal with.

Depends. Are they actually micro managers or do you suck? I am sure many people would want to not micro manage, but if an employee is really, really bad to slightly better than needs improvement, not sure how else a manager is supposed to be.

Don't know about micromanagers but had a OCD manager type who I hated and this worked.


Misspeell words in reports constantaly.

Move chairs, keyboards out of alignment.

Stutter when answering time-sensitive questions or long pauses.

Drop things while talking and struggle to pick them up and talk at the same time.

They had a nervous breakdown and I like to think I played tiny part in it.

Information overload. Make sure he gets painstakingly detailed information on not only the important but also totally mundane tasks everyday. Shouldn’t take long before he’s the one ducking you.

I don’t think I was micromanaging this guy years ago that was great at his job but gave an absolutely painstakingly long account of everything he did. I avoided that guy like the plague.

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I annoyed mine by quitting.

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I did this but I took it one step further before quitting. I was an outside sales person. We had morning recap meetings (about the day before) every morning with this manager and was literally the only reason we had to come into the office. But that was not enough, he wanted a phone call after every sales meeting with a potential client. I tried to explain that I used the time driving to the next meeting going over what I could have done better/what I missed/how I could have closed if I did not get the sale. Also if I did get the sale I used that time to prepare for the next potential customer. So I refused to call him every time.
I got tired of his constant questioning of why clients would not buy. So I told him to go into my dashboard and contact every client and offer them whatever he wanted as a manager. If he sold them I wanted the house to keep the commission I would not take no matter how much work or time I put in up to that point. He sold zero. Freaking zero. Mike drop and I put in my notice. I actually believed in the product and recommended it to a family member a couple of months later. I called the manager to let him know (and because I wanted an excuse to ask him a question about something unrelated) and he admitted my exit interview was the only one he ever sweated. He was actually a likeable guy but could not stop the micromanaging. His office/branch closed within a year or so of my leaving because he could not keep employees.